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Dave Erickson (Dave.Erickson%ow@salata.com) wrote:
:    The reason the media is predominantly liberal is because  liberalism allows
: them to promote excessive democracy and then deplore the consequences.

 
    This constant whining about the so-called "liberal media" 
absolutely cracks me up.  Here are the first three paragraphs from a 
front-page story in last Friday's San Jose Mercury News.  The Merc is 
supposedly one of the most liberal of the "liberal media."  The story 
was written by a Los Angeles Times writer:

     "This week an erratic White House decided on someone the 
Washington press corps considers a reasonable man to be President 
Clinton's press secretary.
    "He is Mike McCurry, the 40-year-old spokesman for the State 
Department.  And if the White House doesn't change its course at the 
last minute, soon it will be his job to deflect the hostility aimed 
at Clinton.  Soon it will be up to McCurry, once the editor of his 
high school newspaper in Redwood City, to deliver a few well-chosen 
words rather than the torrent that has spewed forth from this White 
House.  When Newt Gingrich dribbles toward the net for another slam 
dunk, it will be McCurry's role to leap up and stop him.
     "White House sources say McCurry is expected to be named any day 
now to replace DeeDee Myers, 33, whose last day on the job was 
Thursday.  White House reporters personally liked her but were in the 
habit of bypassing her because she was kept out of the loop.  Byt he 
time the White House bothered to build her up it was too late.  
Clinton apparently needed a person with a more forceful image to 
defend him, and build him up, particularly before male heads of 
households who don't seem to like the president."

     Not very pro-liberal.  What would the Washington Times or Rush 
Limbaugh say that was any different?  The media have been taking 
pot-shots like this at Clinton since he first came on the scene.  I 
don't think the media is really pro-conservative; they're just very 
cynical, feel like they're not doing their job unless they're being 
very critical, and are looking to be the next Woodward and Bernstein.

                                Merlin Dorfman
                                DORFMAN@NETCOM.COM